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Turning the page: Toward a better understanding of adult math talk during storybook reading
Shared-book reading is a promising avenue for enriching informal adult-child math interactions at home. Many parents report reading to their children on a daily basis and often express a stronger preference for literacy-based activities over math-focused ones. Thus, storybooks provide a familiar context for parents to introduce and reinforce early mathematical concepts. In fact, a growing body of work points to the value of storybooks for stimulating parent math-talk and promoting children’s math learning. Yet, there is much still to learn about ways to maximize the value of shared-reading for math learning. In this presentation, I will present a series of studies that investigated which characteristics of math-related storybooks seem most likely to promote extratextual parent-child math-talk and the ways in which parents invite their children to engage in math-talk during shared book-reading.
Teams link: teams.microsoft.com/meet/36687326915085?p=r0rvuOKnFwK1W6mk2E
Date:
10 November 2025, 13:45
Venue:
15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details:
Seminar Room G
Speaker:
Dr Elida V Laski (Boston College)
Organising department:
Department of Education
Organiser:
Professor Gabriel Stylianides (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Hannah Freeman,
Heather Sherkunov,
Kristina Khoo,
Shaena Sinclair
